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Degree Programme Table: Contemporary History (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCCOHIS1F)

Year 1, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Courses will run in either Semester 1 OR Semester 2, subject to staffing availability. The range of option courses available may vary. Students complete six courses, normally three per Semester, and the MSc Dissertation.


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PGHC11334 Historical Research: Skills and Sources As available 20
    PGHC11335 Historical Methodology As available 20
    PGHC11374 Dissertation, Taught MSc in Contemporary History As available 60
    PGHC11362 Introduction to Contemporary History As available 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 2 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 60 credits from these collections:  

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 60 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PGHC11144    The Material Culture of Gender in Eighteenth Century Britain   20  
    PGHC11149    Slavery in the British Atlantic World, 1650-1834   20  
    PGHC11190    Conservatism in the United States, c.1930-c.1990   20  
    PGHC11192    The Civil Rights Movement   20  
    PGHC11214    The Sources of Medieval History   20  
    PGHC11236    Themes in American Historiography   20  
    PGHC11341    The United States and the Cold War   20  
    PGHC11339    War and Identities in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland   20  
    PGHC11332    History as Romance, Profession, Critique: Theory and Scholarship in the West, 1835 to 1985   20  
    PGHC11345    Propaganda in Renaissance Scotland   20  
    PGHC11357    The Crusades: Thirteenth Century Crossroads   20  
    PGHC11358    Cinema and Society in South Asia, 1947-Present   20  
    PGHC11362    Introduction to Contemporary History   20  
    PGHC11407    Genocide in Contemporary History   20  
    PGHC11369    Medieval Men and Masculinities   20  
    PGHC11398    Myth and the History of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe   20  
    PGHC11383    Thinking the 20th Century - Hannah Arendt and the breakdown of European Civilization   20  
    PGHC11426    Citizens and Subjects: concepts of citizenship in modern African intellectual history   20  
    PGHC11441    The Germans and the East: Myth, Migration and Empire 1795 - 1970   20  
    PGHC11447    Literature and History in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland   20  
    PGHC11445    The British Empire in Political Thought   20  
    PGHC11449    Debating Marriage between Antiquity and the Middle Ages   20  
    PGHC11444    The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective   20  
    PGHC11434    Revolutions in Modern Europe   20  
    PGHC11446    Studying Women in Late Medieval England: Sources and Approaches   20  
    PGHC11436    Directed Reading & Research (PGT-Sem 1)   20  
    PGHC11435    Directed Reading & Research (PGT-Sem 2)   20  
    PGHC11438    Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the Magnificent   20  
    PGHC11250    Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Britain c. 1860-1960   20  
    PGHC11417    Currents of Radicalism, 1776-1848   20  

    Notes:Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.
     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 60 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PGHC11376    Seeking 'Japan' in a Westernizing World: Revolution, Romance, and Imperialism, 1868 - 1945   20  
    PGHC11371    Willingly to War? The Origins of the First World War   20  
    PGHC11390    Scotland and Ireland, 1800 to 1945   20  
    PGHC11394    The Shadow of Versailles: Europe Between the Wars, 1918-1939   20  
    PGHC11391    The American Civil War and Reconstruction   20  
    PGHC11393    Athens of the North: the Origins and Ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment   20  
    PGHC11389    The Crusades and the Euro-Mediterranean world of the Central Middle Ages   20  
    PGHC11420    Diaspora, Migration & Exile: A History of the Global Irish since 1600 (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11415    British Empires, 1601-1948 (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11409    Ideology and Politics in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11416    Maps and Mappery in Historical Research: The Case of Scotland (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11419    Society and Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space   20  
    PGHC11422    Myth and the History of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11442    Theories of Empire in the Early Modern Period (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11443    British Politics and Policy in the Second World War (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11450    The Closest of Enemies: Cuban-American Relations 1898-2014 (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11451    South Asia since 1947: History and the Politics of Historiography (ODL)   20  
    PGHC11452    Ancient Egyptian Religion and the Afterlife (ODL)   20  

    Notes:These courses are taught online and are prioritised for students taking an online degree, limited numbers of places may be available to on-campus students.
     



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